Ticket-dater.



PATENTED MAY 29, 1906.

No. 821,731. l

W. P. NOLAN. TICKET DATBR.

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TICKET-DATEF! Specicaton of Letters Patent.

atented May 29, 1906.

Application filed February 2, 1905. Serial No. 243,884.

To all whom it may con/cern,.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM PAUL NOLAN, clerk, of Milton, Otago, New Zealand, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket-Daters, of which the following is a specification'.

The object of this invention is to save time and trouble in dating tickets such as are issued to railway passengers.

The tickets are usually placed in receptacles with their printed faces uppermost. The ticket-clerk pulls one out and requires to turn it upside down and thrust it into the ticketdater now in use. In case of a return-ticket he has to withdraw it, turn it round end for for end, and insert it again in the ticketdater. Both hands are required to turn the ticket. In many cases trains are delayed by a rushA of passengers for tickets, especially when return-tickets are asked for.

This invention is somewhat similar to the ticket-dater at present in use; but it is so constructed that the ticket is inserted in it with its printed face upward, and the imress of the date is made from below instead of from above, as at present.

turning over the ticket. Again, the impression of the date is made in the middle of the ticket, and in the case of a return-ticket there are two date-impressions made near the middle, one on each side of the line through which the return-ticket is torn in half. It will be seen that this ticket-dater will impress the date twice on the single ticket; vbut this is not a disadvantage.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention, Figure 1 is a front view of the ticket-dater. Fig. 2 is a side view thereof. Fig. 3 is an enlarged view of the cap-piece 10. Fig. 4 is a section of the cappiece through A B of Fig. 3, showing the standard-head and type fixed thereto. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the ticket-guard 14.

A vertical guard-piece 1 is mounted on a base-plate 2 by means of a pin 3, which is securely fixed to lugs 4 and 5 on the base-plate 2. Lugs 6, cast integral with the lower end of the guard-piece 1, rest on a snib S, which is adapted to be withdrawn, so that the guard-piece 1 may travel farther back for the engages a lug This saves' purpose of separating from it the standard 9, hereinafter more fully described, to enable the operator to change the type. A cappiece 10, securing the top of the guard-piece 1, has a metal crown 24 and a slot 11 provided in the face 12 thereof for the purpose of receiving the ticket 1,3. A ticket-guard 14, Fig. 5, is secured by its flange 15 to the back edge 16 of the cap-piece 10. An aperture 17 and a check 18 are provided in the ticket-guard 14 to allow the type 19 and 20 to be projected through to the ticket 13, which when inserted rests on the guard 14. The standard 9, to which the type 19 and 20 are attached, is mounted eccentrically on the pin 3. A spring 22, secured to the base-plate 2, A 23, projecting from the base of the standar 9. Under the influence of the spring 22 the apparatus returns to its normal position, Fig. 2, after the operation of dating the ticket.

The tickets are taken from the receptacle and inserted with their printed faces upward in the aperture as far as the flange 15 will permit. When the ticket is in position, the point of the thumb and a portion of the first finger between the first and second joints rests against the face 12 of the cap-piece 10. The operator presses the apparatus backward, causing the standard to partially revolve on its eccentric-pivot, performing an upward movement, and the type attached to the upper end of the standard impresses the date upon the ticket. The metal crown 24 on the cap-piece 1() resists the pressure necessary to make the im rint on the ticket. The guard and standar ,under the influence of the spring, returns to its ordinary position when the ticket is withdrawn.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A ticket-dater consisting of a base, a pin mounted therein, a vertical guard member oscillating on said pin, a top 10 on said member, a slotted plate 14 connected to said top and being parallel thereto and leaving a space between itself and the said top, said guard member having a slot therein communicating with said space, and a type-carrying IOO standard eooentrically mounted on said pin In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my so as to have oscillating movement with the hand in presence of tWo Witnesses. guard member, said standard having its type-carrying end situated just helovvA the WILLIAM PAUL NOLAN 5 slotted plate 14 so that the type Will pass l Witnesses:

through the slots therein on the forward A. J. PARK,

movement ofthe device. J. R. PARK. 

